People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines often cannot handle medical search well because they do not consider its special requirements. Often a medi...
Understanding intents from search queries can improve a user’s search experience and boost a site’s advertising profits. Query tagging via statistical sequential labeling mode...
Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li, Jakub Szyma...
Comprehensive coverage of the public web is crucial to web search engines. Search engines use crawlers to retrieve pages and then discover new ones by extracting the pages' o...
Open source intelligence analysts routinely use the web as a source of information related to their specific taskings. Effective information gathering on the web, despite the prog...
The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics...